CROWLEY, ALEISTER (1875-1947)An English occultist, writer, and yogi. Calling himself “666” and “The Beast,” Crowley immersed himself in black magic, homo-eroticism, raja yoga, and summoning demons, gods, and aliens, as well as channeling, astrology, ancient occult religions, and drug-induced experiences with laudanum, opium, cocaine, hashish, alcohol, ether, mescaline and heroin. He established a hedonistic anti-monastery called the “College of the Holy Spirit” in Sicily. He was considered a racist and a sexist by many, and took pride in the title the media gave him: The Wickedest Man Alive.

The Beatles featured Crowley on the front cover of their eighth album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Crowley greatly influenced L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology, a popular religion among the Hollywood elite, notably Tom Cruise and John Travolta.

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light . . . who to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight,” (Isaiah 5:20).

(A) COURSE IN MIRACLES is a book of New Age doctrine using Christian terminology. These revelations were channeled to Drs. Schucman and Thetford by an entity calling himself “Jesus Christ”. The book has been popularized by Marianne Williamson and Oprah Winfrey.

Though the 1500-page original manuscript was said to be channeled directly by Jesus, the book had to undergo many edits, cuts, and revisions over several years by the authors and by Hugh Lynn Cayce, son of celebrity psychic Edgar Cayce, before it was finally deemed ready to publish.

Neither contemplative (thinking), nor prayer (talking to God), this mind-emptying meditation technique was imported into Christian practice from Buddhist/Hindu theology. Nearly identical techniques are found in all forms of mysticism, shamanism, occultism, and in at least one attempt to contact extra-terrestrials. Generally the process includes measured breathing, mantra/chant, emptying the mind, use of an amulet or other sacred object, and/or a magic circle, labyrinth, or other sacred space, the goal being to stop all thought and to achieve the experience of “union with the divine.”

CHRIST-CONSCIOUSNESS is a term used by Paramahansa Yogananda (1893-1952) and other teachers of Hinduism and New Thought to describe the divinity available to all through higher yoga practice. Imbedded in this term is the doctrine that Jesus was merely the first person to achieve Christhood.

“As your consciousness begins to bond with the Christ child, it will grow and eventually ascend to dwell on the throne of Christ.” Norman Paulsen, student of Yogananda.

Books which purport to detail the developmental process Jesus went through in finding his own “Inner Christ Self” include The Urantia Book, published in 1955, and A Course In Miracles, published in 1976 and dictated by an entity who called himself “Christ.”

The Judeo-Christian title Christ (anointed) and the name of the Hindu deity Krishna (black, dark) are incorrectly interchanged in the teaching of Christ-consciousness/Krishna-consciousness.

Author Leonard Sweet introduced the term into the Christian mainstream: “The church is fundamentally one being, one person, a comm-union whose cells are connected to one another within the information network called the Christ consciousness.” (Quantum Spirituality, p. 122)

CHENREZIG (eye, continuous, look)The Tibetan god/goddess of mercy. This god is invoked with the enigmatic chant, Om padm—, which may be translated “The jewel is in the lotus.” According to a website for teen Buddhists, it’s beneficial to visualize this deity, or the Dalai Lama (who is said to be his incarnation) “inside or outside your body” while reciting the mantra.

The WOTNODY Files

The idea of The WOTNODY Files resulted from thousands of hours of ongoing research by a team of authors/culture watchers who are deeply concerned about the spread of occult workings in schools, homes, churches, businesses, and governments.